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tl;dr: you can install cross-compiler toolchains to compile C/C++ for Windows or Linux from macOS with these two Homebrew Formulas. brew install FiloSottile/musl-cross/musl-cross brew install mingw-w64 hr { margin: 2em 0; } Cross-compiling C and C++ is dreadful. While in Go you just need to set an environment… »

tl;dr: I'm livecoding the Cryptopals in Go on Twitch, one set every Sunday. The recordings are on YouTube. Oh, wow. I love the idea. Would anyone here seriously watch 20 to 40 hours of me doing crypto, math and Go? Mic, screen, and everything. https://t.co/jx3s736bGm—… »

The recommended scrypt parameters in the Go docs were recently brought up for discussion given they haven't changed since 2009. Even if at this point I memorized the three numbers (N=16384, r=8, p=1) I only have a vague understanding of their meaning, so I took some time… »

More specifically, TLS 1.2 Session Tickets. Session Tickets, specified in RFC 5077, are a technique to resume TLS sessions by storing key material encrypted on the clients. In TLS 1.2 they speed up the handshake from two to one round-trips. Unfortunately, a combination of deployment realities and three… »

Captive portals are the worst. Flaky detection. The OS and browser try to detect these annoying network features but fail quite often, leaving you with broken connections. DID YOU KNOW that probe-based captive portal detection really doesn't work very well, with ~30% FP *and* ~30% FN rate in… »

Linux 4.13 introduces support for nothing less than... TLS! The 1600 LoC patch allows userspace to pass the kernel the encryption keys for an established connection, making encryption happen transparently inside the kernel. The only ciphersuite supported is AES-128-GCM as per RFC 5288, meaning it only supports TLS version… »

tl;dr: this is not an audit nor an endorsement and I take no responsibility, but I had a quick look at the crypto and I think I'm going to use restic for my personal backups. I keep hearing good things about restic. I am redoing my storage solution, and… »

[русский] Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptography is unforgiving. Wouldn't it be nice if… »

tl;dr: use the script at the bottom to go get into the Homebrew "Cellar" and keep your GOPATH clean. I personally like GOPATH and import paths, but while trying to reduce my laptop to a thin reproducible client, I felt the pain of keeping track of the hundreds of… »

Fully reproducible builds are important because they bridge the gap between auditable open source and convenient binary artifacts. Technologies like TUF and Binary Transparency provide accountability for what binaries are shipped to users, but that's of limited utility if there is no way (short of reverse engineering) of proving that… »

FileVault 2 is the full-disk encryption system of macOS. Normally, it's turned on from System Preferences, and locks the disk with the passwords of all the users allowed to unlock the machine. Overloading the login/unlock/sudo password is an understandable UX simplicity choice, but makes it very hard to… »

Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed. If you suspect you might be affected… »

Nick Sullivan and I gave a talk about TLS 1.3 at 33c3, the latest Chaos Communication Congress. Here's the Fahrplan entry. We spoke about the flow of TLS 1.2 vs. TLS 1.3, how it manages to save a round trip, resumption and 0-RTT, forward secrecy and replays,… »

I was asked to contribute a post to the excellent Gopher Academy advent series. I took the occasion to write down what I learned deploying a Go service on the Cloudflare edge. The result is a catalogue of what you need to know before you drop NGINX from in front… »

After years of wrestling GnuPG with varying levels of enthusiasm, I came to the conclusion that it's just not worth it, and I'm giving up. At least on the concept of long term PGP keys. This is not about the gpg tool itself, or about tools at all. Many already… »

Starting a series of blog posts on TLS 1.3, I published my notes on the landscape of cipher nonces in TLS across versions, to help me clean up the implementation. Comes with hand-drawn diagrams! TLS nonce-nse | CloudFlare Blog (archive)… »

I presented TLS 1.3 to the CloudFlare London office. Why it's faster, how it works, why it's safer, what's clever about it. The talk is recorded and comes with colored diagrams. There's a transcript on the CloudFlare blog. Update: you might want to watch my 33c3 talk on the… »

The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase. We know things get interesting when I lose a password. I did a weak attempt at finding some public bruteforce tool,… »